A couple years ago, I thought about how I would effectively control Reddit with bots, if I had the opportunity, and I decided that sport subs would be a great place to farm karma and comments, while looking just like a human.
The way I imagined it, you would have networks of bots, say 20-50 active accounts, that act autonomously most of the time, posting pointless comments and memes. You'd then have one or more operators on these accounts, who occasionally take them over to agitate - posting highly inflammatory comments and attacking non-prog comments.
Sports subs make a great location for farming, because you need almost no input to have long comment chains where words are written, but no new information is exchanged. People can go on and on, regurgitating the same known facts about ref calls and player records, back and forth, in ways that bots can very easily understand and replicate. Hell, most of that is probably already in machine-readable databases created by sports autists.
I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than half of /r/baseball's users were actually human. It certainly wouldn't be if I were a bad actor.
A couple years ago, I thought about how I would effectively control Reddit with bots, if I had the opportunity, and I decided that sport subs would be a great place to farm karma and comments, while looking just like a human.
The way I imagined it, you would have networks of bots, say 20-50 active accounts, that act autonomously most of the time. You'd then have one or more operators on these accounts, who occasionally take them over to agitate - posting highly inflammatory comments and attacking non-prog comments.
Sports subs make a great location for farming, because you need almost no input to have long comment chains where words are written, but no new information is exchanged. People can go on and on, regurgitating the same known facts about ref calls and player records, back and forth, in ways that bots can very easily understand and replicate. Hell, most of that is probably already in machine-readable databases created by sports autists.
I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than half of /r/baseball's users were actually human. It certainly wouldn't be if I were a bad actor.